Giveaway Post #8

Kara @ Great Imaginations is celebrating 100,000 (really, I could written it as 100k but many zeroes look awesome xD) page views on her blog with a MASSIVE GIVEAWAY. 

As of 26/11 there will be 4 winners who will get to choose from Kara's top book picks (lots of fantabulous choices!!) and 1 for a giftcard to Amazon/B&N/TBD. 

What are you waiting for?  Head over NOW.

The (Mis)adventures of a Twenty-Something Year Old Girl has reached 150 (actually 250+ when I'm writing this)  and she is offering a book up to £10 for 3 winners! A fourth winner will be added if she reaches 300 followers by the time the giveaway ends. :)

Click HERE to enter.




Melissa @ Book Nerd Reviews is giving away 3 x one book from the selection below in her November Giveaway! Click the button above to enter.

image from booknerdreviews.com

Have you entered the Blog Makeover Giveaway @ Mostly YA Book Obsessed?? It's the last day! Hurry and get your entries in before it's too late.  A selection of fab books for US only and $25 gift card for international readers! Click the button above to enter.

Enter Annabelle's fabulous Black Friday Giveaway!  You could win an ARC of choice plus a $50 giftcard (US) or $50 worth of books from TBD/Fishpond!

Link HERE 

image from http://www.the-dailybookmark.com

The Daily Bookmark is officially one year old and has reached 400 followers!

Check out Jessie Marie's giveaway HERE.

Have you checked out the awesome 1000 followers giveaway at The Book Belles?  You could win 1 out of 6 amazing prize packs! There's The Friday Society, Burn for Burn, Defiance, Venom, Black City to name some! Cause I failed at formatting the pics to line up neatly I'm not posting the selections here, you'll have to head over to The Book Belles to find out. ;P

Enter HERE

Enter The Hollow Cupboard's  1,000 follower giveaway and win a box of books (US only) or a 2013 pre-order of your choice! (intl)
Details and enter HERE

Blogversary Celebration + TBR Shelf Giveaway at Sparkles and Lightning

Have you checked out the week of Blogversary Celebrations @ Sparkles and Lightning? There's a fabulous giveaway on for each day. Hop over there via the links helow! 

Day 1 : Win $65 worth of books from TBD!

Day 2 : Annabelle's favorite reads!

Day 3 : Annabelle's favorite reads part 2
Day 4 : Blogger love + ebook giveaway
Day 5 : Author love
Day 6 : Publisher love
Day 7 : Statistics + US/CAD giveaway
Day 8 : End of Blogversary + FABULOUS GIVEAWAYS

ALSO, she has a giveaway for books on her TBR shelf going on as well.
Check it out HERE

Giveaway Post #7

 

Have you entered Inky's Awesome Sauce Follower Giveaway? It ends in a day!

Guess the books in the picture collage and be entered to win one of them. 

Click HERE or the button above to enter.

Annabelle @ Sparkles and Lightning has reached 1000 followers and is doing a giveaway to celebrate! 

There will be a total of 10 winners (yep, TEN) and each will get to pick 2 books of their choice.

Click HERE or the button to above to enter.

image from http://bloodybookaholic.blogspot.com

Check out the giveaway at Bloody Bookaholic  and stand a chance to win the awesome box of YA books above! Click HERE to enter.

Help Molli @ Once Upon A Prologue celebrate hitting 100,000 page views and win a book of your choice!

Enter HERE

Win a $15 book of choice from The Book Depository in Incandescent Enchantment's 550+ followers giveaway! Click the button above or head over HERE  

Join Erleen @ Books For YA as she celebrates her birthday and 6 months anniversary in the blogging world!  Click HERE to enter.

Xpresso Design!

 The awesome at Giselle @ Xpresso Reads recently launched her own design service!

Need a blog makeover, buttons, banners or other blogging pretties?
Head over to Xpresso Design to get one!

DEITY trailer + APOLLYON cover reveal!

Deity (Book #3 in the Covenant Series)
Available in both print and digital version on Nov. 6, 2012
Amazon | Barnes and Noble

Official Deity Book Trailer
 

Did you read an ARC of Deity and been dying to get your hands on Elixir, the novella told in Aiden’s POV and picks up right after the end of Deity? Well, you don’t have to wait any longer. The free novella is available now. DO NOT read Elixir if you have not read Deity. It will spoil Deity for you and not to mention, you will have no idea what is going on.

Elixir will be available in print. Kindle, and Nook formats on November 27, 2012.

Click HERE to read Elixir.

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And we’re super excited to share the cover for the 4^th book in the Covenant Series, Apollyon, which is due out April 2013.

Check out Jennifer L. Armentrout on the following sites:
Facebook
Twitter
Official Website

Giveaway Post #7

It (was) Avry's birthday in September and she also hit 500+ followers!
She has generously offered 3 gorgeous prize packs to be won!

Here are just SOME of the books offered:
For more info and to enter, click HERE

Cover reveal: OPAL by Jennifer L. Armentrout

No one is like Daemon Black.

When he set out to prove his feelings for me, he wasn’t fooling around. Doubting him isn’t something I’ll do again, and now that we’ve made it through the rough patches, well... There’s a lot of spontaneous combustion going on.

But even he can’t protect his family from the danger of trying to free those they love.

After everything, I’m no longer the same Katy. I’m different... And I’m not sure what that will mean in the end. When each step we take in discovering the truth puts us in the path of the secret organization responsible for torturing and testing hybrids, the more I realize there is no end to what I’m capable of. The death of someone close still lingers, help comes from the most unlikely source, and friends will become the deadliest of enemies, but we won’t turn back. Even if the outcome will shatter our worlds forever.

Together we’re stronger... and they know it.

Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes & Noble

Follow this link to an ~~~ EPIC CONTEST ~~~ Announcement. You will want to bookmark this page!

http://jenniferarmentrout.blogspot.com/p/october-1-2012.html

USA TODAY Bestselling author, Jennifer L. Armentrout, lives in Martinsburg, West Virginia. All the rumors you’ve heard about her state aren’t true. When she’s not hard at work writing, she spends her time reading, working out, watching really bad zombie movies, pretending to write, and hanging out with her husband and her Jack Russell, Loki. Her dreams of becoming an author started in algebra class where she spent most of her time writing short stories….which explains her dismal grades in math. Jennifer writes young adult paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary romance. She also writes adult romance under the name J. Lynn.

Find Jennifer on: Twitter | Facebook | Goodreads | Website | Blog

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What do you think of the cover? Isn't it beautiful and eerie? It's easily my favorite among all of the Lux book covers! I also love this a lot more than the old red placeholder that's still floating around (because blue is my favorite color)

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Psst, check out the giveaway for OPAL hosted by 365 Books A Year!

Giveaway Post #6

Another bout of giveaways to share :)

 

Open internationally and 2  lucky winners, come enter Annabelle @ Sparkles and Lightning's Follower Appreciation Giveaway HERE!

Open internationally and one lucky person will win a book from the 13 choices.

But this giveaway is a little unusual and special because you have to play a guessing game...

Wonder what game is it? Go enter Book Haven Extraordinaire's Awesome Sauce Followers Giveaway and find out!

Image credit: The Midnight Garden

This one's also by The Midnight Garden

Enter HERE to win an ARC of Every Day by David Levithan and also for a delicious peanut butter cookie recipe!

Check out Imaginary Reads' Follower Appreciation Giveaway HERE Various Prize Packs for US peeps and $15 towards a book of choice from The Book Depository for the international followers!

Come enter Book Nerd Reviews' September Giveaway HERE!

3 WINNERS.

International!

Taneika of Flipping Through the Pages is celebrating her one year blogversary with a giveaway! 1 for AUSSIES only and the other INTERNATIONAL. Enter HERE

Stacking the Shelves #3

Stacking the Shelves is a meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews to share the books we got recently.

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My books are color coordinated this week :P
Only Team Red books arrived this week, Team Blue was from several weeks ago. I'm still waiting on a bunch of orders to arrive.

Team Blue 

This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers  (won from Heather @ Book Stacks On Deck)

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

Team Red

Girl of Nightmares by Kendare Blake
ARC of Deity by Jennifer L. Armentrout (won from one of her blog contests last month)


That's my haul for today and special thanks to Heather and Jennifer! :)

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Also, if you don't mind please take a look at my previous post in which I shared the designs (larger sized versions!) I made for the Sweet Hope cover design contest held by Bewitched Bookworms!

Version 1

Version 2

You can vote for your favorite cover designs  HERE

Entries for Sweet Hope Cover Design Contest!

(Clicky image to head over to where the contest is held!)
EDIT; 25/08  VOTING IS NOW OPEN. TO VOTE CLICK HERE Main post: Clicky

Rules & Guidelines

• Design a cover for Sweet Hope
• The contest will run two rounds of voting and you can enter 3 different covers!
• Blog about the contest and YOUR entries, and let us know your vision of the cover!
• If you do not have a blog, then post on pinteretst,  facebook, twitter or tumblr with the tags #SweetEvil #SweetHope #CoverDesignContest
• send your cover entry to me : mrsvanquish@me.com and leave a comment with the link!
• all entries must be submitted until August 22nd (Wednesday)
• Contest is open International! 

All cover design entries will be uploaded and organized on a pinterest board and on facebook so that everyone can see them for the voting process! 

Note: Paint and Gimp are free photo editing programs you can use to design a cover. Of course, there’s Photoshop, the queen of programs. You can also just choose an image you think is perfect for the Sweet Hope cover, if you truly cannot use any of those programs. You do NOT need to to use Stock Images, own artwork is very welcome! But, you must own the rights  to use any of the images you use to design the cover!

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Here are my entries! :)

Version 1

Version 2

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Credits

Stock photo of the girl: Perfume7 by faestock

Background: Enchanted forest 5 by CathleenTarawhiti

Photo of guy: I no longer have the link but I found it  from an old folder of images I saved. I think it was from MorgueFiles.

*The covers were just created for a fan contest and not for commercial use. No copyright infringement intended!

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Thoughts

I've been waiting for the opportunity to use the gorgeous photo by faestock since I first saw it ages ago! So when the contest popped up I immediately choose that! Due to my lack of skills I wasn't able to edit her hair to the really light blonde like the girl on the cover of Sweet Evil had from the original red of the model's hair. (See here and here) 

I tried my best to match the original cover of Sweet Evil  because I'm OCD about having matching book covers and the first cover sort of reflects the events at the end of the book one. If you've read it you know what happens. >.<  For the 'hope' in the title I emphasized the rose the girl (Anna) holds in her hands near her heart to give her sort of a hopeful/wishful feel. It won't be such 'sweet hope' with the guy leaving huh? o.o I know the cover doesn't really have to match the title at all but I like the little bits of symbolism. 

Initially I only planned to submit the first design but after playing around with it more I made the solo girl version! Because there's a lot more space of the second cover I decided to touch up on the play of darkness and light to make it look more dramatic. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. :)

Onyx Book Trailer

Have you seen the book trailer for Onyx, #2 in the LUX series by Jennifer L. Armentrout yet? It just went live yesterday! Watch for Daemon and Katy awesomeness! :)

Giveaway Post #5

To celebrate her birthday in July, Taneika of Flipping Through the Pages is having a giveaway! One winner will win one of the books below! To enter, click HERE.

(image taken from here)

Incandescent Enhancement is celebrating 450 followers!

Click the button below to enter!

Some of the books up for grabs are Throne of Glass, Glitch, Defiance and more!
Fall into Summer with Fiction Freak!  Win a book released between August 20 to November 31st !  (under $10 or...$13? I'm not sure because she listed 2 prices) Click the button below to enter!

Don't forget, Ivy Book Bindings' 150 follower giveaway is still going on! Click HERE to enter.

     For her 500 followers giveaway, Rotten Apple Reads is giving away  

a choice of 3 amazing prize packs!

Enter here.

Pack #1 The Golden Lily, Vampire Academy and Shatter Me
Pack #2 Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy!
#Pack 3 Torment, Passion and Fallen in Love (Fallen series)



Stand a chance to win ARCs of BETA and Monument 14 and a finished copy of The Forsaken in  The Midnight Garden's Dystopia/Post-apocalyptic giveaway!